Missing Returned

Winter                                                         Seed Catalog Moon Got my manuscript back today from the copy editor, Robert Klein, at quickproofs.  I haven’t looked at it, but I will, probably not […]

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Too Many Words

Imbolc                                           Garden Planning Moon Still plugging away at 1,500 words a day.  The novel is sort of baggy right now.  Lots of words, probably, as the Emperor famously said to Mozart, too many words. […]

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Unchain My TP

Winter                                         Garden Planning Moon Second (and last of this class) photoshop class tonight.  Boy, is this a complex program and it’s only one in the Creative Suite.  Lot of cool things but they will require […]

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A Morning During Our Long November

Winter                            First Moon of the New Year Our long November continues.  Patchy snow, mostly bare ground and leafless trees.  Occasional sunshine, like today, otherwise gloomy and gray.   I’m disappointed in the season since I believe we have to earn our springs […]

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Rereading

Samain                                  Moon of the Winter Solstice Today, the novel.  Rereading old work, this material is from the beginning of this year, has an odd flavor.  Some of it I read and, boy, what was I thinking?  The pencil scratches […]

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Words.

Imbolc                                                            Waxing Bridgit Moon “Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those ‘truths’ we once believed.” – Friedrich Nietzsche This intellectual bomb-thrower has always been a favorite of mine though I’ve not ready any of his stuff cover to cover.  A recent bio tries to make him into a closet hyper-religious, but […]

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Still Learning

Samhain                                                                    Waxing Moon of the Winter Solstice The moon light, bright in the southern sky, casts shadows, thin skeletons of trees and shrubs splayed out upon the snow. This Latin stuff is fun.  Going back and forth among dictionaries, grammars, websites, puzzling out the verbs and the nouns, trying to fit it all together into […]

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A Warm-Blooded Insect?

Spring                                         Waxing Awakening Moon Sunny, but cool though warm weather seems fated to come our way.  Ice out has advanced on Round Lake though there is still rough, weak ice over most of its surface.  Many daffodils have speared their way up through the leaves and other detritus from last falls end of the growing […]

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A Grand Tour

Imbolc                             Waning Wild Moon I took folks on a Grand Tour at the MIA this afternoon, seeing objects from the historical period 1600-1850.  I expanded the Grand Tour idea and took it beyond the confines of Italy and France to include North America, Africa and Asia.  The folks on the tour, five, Allison and four […]

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Gonna Take That Wild Last Ride

Imbolc                                         Waxing Wild Moon Back at the novel today, 1,800 words.  There’s an uphill struggle to get back in the groove when I let a week or so slip by with no work on it.  Like navigating the turns in the fast luge track at Whistler, I get stuck at the start, but once the […]

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